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William C. Kirby

Chinese Educator

Born: 1950

China Chinese Conflict First Political War

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The greater concerns in China and Taiwan are on the political side, not on the economic side. William C. Kirby

Political Side Economic Taiwan Concerns Greater China

Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and including in recent history, for war. William C. Kirby

War Great History Inevitable Believe Starts Has-Been Never Until Been Human Human History Including Now Recent Recent History

East Asia has prospered since the end of the Vietnam War, and Northeast Asia has prospered since the end of the Korean War in a way that seems unimaginable when you think of the history of the first half of the century. William C. Kirby

So, anything that avoids a conflict that could draw in, unhappily again, outside powers such as the United States or revisit, for example, Japan's interests in the Taiwan area would be the last thing that anyone would want. William C. Kirby

Conflict Example States Draw Would Would-Be Area Could Taiwan Outside For Example Powers Revisit Want Anyone Anything Again Japan Interests United United States Thing Last

The reform of state industry, and most directly related to that, the banking sector, is enormously daunting. William C. Kirby

Related State Sector Directly Daunting Most Industry Reform Banking

So, I think China desperately needs to legitimize some form of opposition. William C. Kirby

Needs Think Desperately Some Opposition Form China

Harvard is first and foremost a university and not a consulting operation, and our job here is to teach and to research and to create knowledge on Asia in conjunction and in cooperation with scholars as well as with political, intellectual, and cultural leaders in Asia. William C. Kirby

Knowledge Political Job First Research Our Harvard Consulting Scholars Leaders Well Operation Cultural Foremost Intellectual Asia Create Teach Conjunction Cooperation Here University

Another goal is to look to the resources we have and to see how we could do better to plan, in a sense, for the faculty and infrastructure that we will need to study Asia well into the 21st century. William C. Kirby

Better Will Sense Resources See Could Faculty Study Look Well Another How Goal Infrastructure Asia Century Plan Need

And look at the mess that Russia is; most Chinese don't want to follow that. William C. Kirby

Follow Russia Look Most Mess Want Chinese

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